Ken Cruickshank
Biographic Data
| ID | 763902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Cruickshank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruickshank |
| SIGNATURE | CRUICKSHANK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3647-6436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hidden in plain sight: The global heritage language education sector
Community-based heritage language schools operate worldwide in countries with minority and diasporic languages. They constitute a key language education sector, with an estimated two million students worldwide, and have the aim of developing the language and cultural understanding of young people. This article, based on research across three countries and three language networks, identifies key issues confronting the sector: the lack of recogniti…
Community language schools: A scoping review of research, 2001 to 2023
Community language schools provide language and cultural education to young people. Forming a key education sector worldwide with an estimated two million enrolments, these community-run, out-of-hours schools nonetheless tend to be marginalised by ‘mainstream’ education and ‘mainstream’ educational research. There has been a dramatic increase in research into community language schools in the past two decades, but there is still no systematic rev…
Creating pathways for internationally educated teachers into the teaching profession: Practices, policies and problems in the Australian context
The diversity of teachers is half that of the student population in Australia. Despite government policies to support internationally trained teachers (ITTs), there remain major structural and institutional barriers working against access to the profession: an information gap, the lack of professional advice, the absence of programmes to help teachers gain accreditation and the lack of mentoring or support programmes. This paper focuses on ITTs u…
Languages discourses in Australian middle-class schools: Parent and Student Perspectives
Much of the literature on social class and language study in schools argues that for middle-class parents and their children, languages are chosen for their capacity to offer forms of distinction that provide an edge in the global labour market. In this paper, we draw on data collected from interviews with parents and children in middle-class schools in Australia to demonstrate how a complex amalgam of elite, cultural identity and/or trade langua…
The struggle for legitimacy: Language provision in two ‘residual’ comprehensive high schools in Australia
Despite the contemporary policy rhetoric of global citizenry and the importance of languages and intercultural capabilities, language learning in Australian schools struggles for recognition and support. The curriculum marginalisation of languages, however, is uneven, affecting some school sectors more than others. In this article, we examine the provision of languages in two government comprehensive high schools, both low socio-economic status, …
Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication
Access to Majority Language and Educational Outcomes: South Asian Background Students in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This study examines the extent to which South Asian students in Hong Kong are gaining fluency in Chinese and the impact of this on their educational outcomes in the postcolonial context of an official shift to a trilingual (Cantonese, English, and Putonghua) and biliterate (Chinese and English) society. It focuses on the teaching and learning of Chinese in secondary schools “designated” for minority background students. Data are drawn from studen…
Mother tongue and bilingual minority education in China
Mother tongue education in separate schools has been in the norm for several of China's large minorities since 1949. In recent years, however, the shift in minority parental demand, media focus on low educational outcomes of mother tongue education combined with government concerns about separatism have led to the development of mixed schools for Chinese and minority students. In China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) the government pla…
Michael Piva — The Borrowing Process: Public Finance in the Province of Canada, 1840-67
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Mother tongue and bilingual minority education in China
Mother tongue education in separate schools has been in the norm for several of China's large minorities since 1949. In recent years, however, the shift in minority parental demand, media focus on low educational outcomes of mother tongue education combined with government concerns about separatism have led to the development of mixed schools for Chinese and minority students. In China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) the government pla…
Languages discourses in Australian middle-class schools: Parent and Student Perspectives
Much of the literature on social class and language study in schools argues that for middle-class parents and their children, languages are chosen for their capacity to offer forms of distinction that provide an edge in the global labour market. In this paper, we draw on data collected from interviews with parents and children in middle-class schools in Australia to demonstrate how a complex amalgam of elite, cultural identity and/or trade langua…
Access to Majority Language and Educational Outcomes: South Asian Background Students in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This study examines the extent to which South Asian students in Hong Kong are gaining fluency in Chinese and the impact of this on their educational outcomes in the postcolonial context of an official shift to a trilingual (Cantonese, English, and Putonghua) and biliterate (Chinese and English) society. It focuses on the teaching and learning of Chinese in secondary schools “designated” for minority background students. Data are drawn from studen…
The struggle for legitimacy: Language provision in two ‘residual’ comprehensive high schools in Australia
Despite the contemporary policy rhetoric of global citizenry and the importance of languages and intercultural capabilities, language learning in Australian schools struggles for recognition and support. The curriculum marginalisation of languages, however, is uneven, affecting some school sectors more than others. In this article, we examine the provision of languages in two government comprehensive high schools, both low socio-economic status, …
Michael Piva — The Borrowing Process: Public Finance in the Province of Canada, 1840-67
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Mother tongue and bilingual minority education in China
Mother tongue education in separate schools has been in the norm for several of China's large minorities since 1949. In recent years, however, the shift in minority parental demand, media focus on low educational outcomes of mother tongue education combined with government concerns about separatism have led to the development of mixed schools for Chinese and minority students. In China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) the government pla…
Access to Majority Language and Educational Outcomes: South Asian Background Students in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This study examines the extent to which South Asian students in Hong Kong are gaining fluency in Chinese and the impact of this on their educational outcomes in the postcolonial context of an official shift to a trilingual (Cantonese, English, and Putonghua) and biliterate (Chinese and English) society. It focuses on the teaching and learning of Chinese in secondary schools “designated” for minority background students. Data are drawn from studen…
Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication
The struggle for legitimacy: Language provision in two ‘residual’ comprehensive high schools in Australia
Despite the contemporary policy rhetoric of global citizenry and the importance of languages and intercultural capabilities, language learning in Australian schools struggles for recognition and support. The curriculum marginalisation of languages, however, is uneven, affecting some school sectors more than others. In this article, we examine the provision of languages in two government comprehensive high schools, both low socio-economic status, …
Languages discourses in Australian middle-class schools: Parent and Student Perspectives
Much of the literature on social class and language study in schools argues that for middle-class parents and their children, languages are chosen for their capacity to offer forms of distinction that provide an edge in the global labour market. In this paper, we draw on data collected from interviews with parents and children in middle-class schools in Australia to demonstrate how a complex amalgam of elite, cultural identity and/or trade langua…
Creating pathways for internationally educated teachers into the teaching profession: Practices, policies and problems in the Australian context
The diversity of teachers is half that of the student population in Australia. Despite government policies to support internationally trained teachers (ITTs), there remain major structural and institutional barriers working against access to the profession: an information gap, the lack of professional advice, the absence of programmes to help teachers gain accreditation and the lack of mentoring or support programmes. This paper focuses on ITTs u…
Community language schools: A scoping review of research, 2001 to 2023
Community language schools provide language and cultural education to young people. Forming a key education sector worldwide with an estimated two million enrolments, these community-run, out-of-hours schools nonetheless tend to be marginalised by ‘mainstream’ education and ‘mainstream’ educational research. There has been a dramatic increase in research into community language schools in the past two decades, but there is still no systematic rev…
Hidden in plain sight: The global heritage language education sector
Community-based heritage language schools operate worldwide in countries with minority and diasporic languages. They constitute a key language education sector, with an estimated two million students worldwide, and have the aim of developing the language and cultural understanding of young people. This article, based on research across three countries and three language networks, identifies key issues confronting the sector: the lack of recogniti…
Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works)